John Harbaugh Wants To Play on Thanksgiving Every Year

ESPN – The Baltimore Ravens will play host to the Thanksgiving night game for the second time in three years when they face the Pittsburgh Steelers at M&T Bank Stadium on Thursday. Ravens coach John Harbaugh is lobbying to make this an annual event. “At any point in time the NFL and Roger [Goodell, NFL commissioner] want to make this tradition, wouldn’t we all be for that in Baltimore?,” Harbaugh said. “That would be pretty amazing. We’d love it.” The NFL has held Thanksgiving day games in Detroit and Dallas every year since 1978. The league added a night game on Thanksgiving starting in 2006, and only the Ravens and New York Jets have hosted that night game more than once. The Ravens played their first game on Thanksgiving in 2011, when they beat the San Francisco 49ers, 16-6, in Baltimore. On Thursday, the Ravens (5-6) face the Steelers (5-6) in a game that is loaded with playoff implications. “It’s an honor to play on Thanksgiving,” Harbaugh said. “We get a chance to play in front of the whole country in a rivalry such as this in Baltimore. I think this is something you work hard for. We can’t wait to play.”

When it comes to the topic of the same teams playing every Thanksgiving, I have never been more undecided on anything ever in the history of ever. On one hand, I love tradition. Knowing the Cowboys will likely be embarrassed on national TV each and every year warms my heart. Makes Thanksgiving that much sweeter. Friends, family, beer, turkey, and Tony Romo pissing away the playoffs and having a terrible dinner later that night.

On the other hand, remember the 100 year span when the Lions sucked cock? When they had the likes of Rodney Pete, Charlie Batch, and Joey Harrington starting every year? That game always blew camel balls.

On the third hand, the NFL has done a horrific job planning prime time games this season. I can’t remember a season where such a large number of primetime games were grade A monkey poo. So perhaps not allowing Goodell’s retard hands to have a say in something, and just automatically knowing the Thanksgiving game will be the Ravens vs the Steelers or Bengals might be a good thing.

Let’s vote using some stars. Vote 1 if you like the pre-determined games, vote 10 if you would rather it change year to year.

(186 votes, average: 5.75 out of 10)

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